is a Japanese

activist Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good. Forms of activism range fro ...

, and owner of a second-hand goods shop in Koenji, Tokyo.

Activism

Matsumoto founded the Association to Protect the Poor Students of

Hosei University is a private university based in Tokyo, Japan. The university originated in a school of law, Tōkyō Hōgakusha (, i.e. Tokyo association of law), established in 1880, and the following year renamed Tōkyō Hōgakkō (, i.e. Tokyo school of law ...

while a student at Hosei University. He spent about four months in jail for throwing paint on the president of his university and is now mainly active in Koenji, Tokyo. He was one of the main originators of the artistic and social activist collective Amateur Revolt, which started in 2005 but became especially well known in 2011 for its anti-nuclear activism following quickly upon the heels of the

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster The was a nuclear accident in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan. The proximate cause of the disaster was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which occurred on the afternoon of 11 March 2011 and ...

. He states his goal as creating a space where people can have fun without money. He was denied entry to South Korea on September 30, 2010, on security grounds.

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Amateur Revolt
an artistic and social activist collective in Mabashi, Koenji {{DEFAULTSORT:Matsumoto, Hajime Anti-poverty advocates Japanese anti–nuclear power activists 1974 births Living people